although we want you to watch live come and we are grateful for you, for our sponsors, and for the entire fox news audience, the staff that make the show possible, it is a team effort every night, that is all the time we have tonight. shannon bream and the "fox news @ night" team take it all from here. happy thanksgiving. ♪ >> bret: good evening, happy thanksgiving, welcome to washington, i'm mike emanuel kiinfo bret baier. talking at length for the first time since the election about his ongoing challenging the results, spoke with reporters following a conference with military at the white house. he will campaign next week for the g.o.p. senators in the runoffs, we will bring you his comment this and we get the video. correspondent kristin fisherhi s at the white house white house tonight. >> good evening, mike, this is a big deal here with is the first time president trump has taken questions from reporters since the election, and itor started with asking president trump if

he had any big plans for his last thanksgiving in the white house, and president trump responded by saying that this may not be his last thanksgiving in the white house, and then, another reporter asked the president when he will concede, or if you would concede after the electoral college voted fort joe biden, and president trump said that if the electoral collegee does vote for joe bid, that it would be a mistake, but het did say that he would leave the white house on january 20th if that does, indeed, happen. president trump also noted he had a lot to do between now and then. >> one day after pardoning two turkeys. >> i hereby grant you a full pardon. >> president trump pardon his former national security advisor michael flynn. the retired lieutenant general said this thanksgiving, he is grateful for president trump's full pardon, in a statement released thursday afternoon, flynn wrote, "never again should any family or individual he so

viciously targeted, maligned, smeared, and threatened," adding, "time does not always heal all wounds, but discovering the truth has a funny way of shaking scars." flynn twice pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with then russian ambassador sergey kislyak. his legal team later argued the fbi has set him up in a perjury trap in the justice department tried to get the case tossed out. democrats democrats like speaker nancy pelosi are calling the part in an act of corruption, a brazen abuse of power. went on to say this pardon is "further proof trump plans to use his final days in office to undermine the rule of law." president trump is believed to be considering more pardons fork people like paul manafort, his former campaign manager, and roger stone, during his final weeks in office, president expected to sign a handful of executive orders to try to cement his america first agenda. in china and along the u.s. southern border. just last week come his administration finalized a rule that will make it easier for the

u.s. forest service to approve some logging and wildfire mitigation project without an environmental review. over the next few weeks, the president must also sign a bill to prevent the government shutdown on december 11th, and it almost the exact same time come his administration will be overseeing the rollout of the first covid-19 vaccines. the head of the cdc said this week that those first vaccines will likely begin going out at the end of the second week of december. >> understand the presidentnt is about to speak right now. i will send it back to you, mike. >> mike: kristin fisher leading us off. k let's head to the white house where we have the h president speaking, let's listen in. >> president trump: they don't wantle to show us signatures, te reason they don't want to show simple.tures is very because we will find thousands and thousands -- it is a very close race, but we will find thousands and thousands of discrepancies, fraud, why they aren't wanting to show those signatures is amazing. they are doing recounts, and

even in the recount, they found thousands of votes that were wrong, but now we want to look at the signatures, and you will find tens of thousands of a fale ballots, forged ballots, you'lls see it all over. you're going to see a lot of it, and you go to pennsylvania, you saw the meeting we had yesterday with pennsylvania, you saw people come upyo and they went o vote, and they said no, you can't vote, somebody else already sent in a ballot. and a woman -- but this iss happening, tens of thousands of times. i think it was 600000-on -- fraudulent votes cast in pennsylvania are, you look at the republican state house, they are starting toe see what is going on there. they really noted for a long time, and then you go to michigan, and you look at what happened in wayne county, in detroit, i went through a list. i won almost every county, and you see it come almost every -- 78%, 68%, going through the list, and then you get to wayne,

and something happened. tremendous numbers, use all the canvassers that refused to sign the documents because they said "we can't sign a fraudulent document." horrible things went on. that is in wayne county, detroit, but you look at the votes that were just tabulated, and they left -- look t at all f the counties come i won almost all of them except detroit was so egregious, it was phony. look at what is going on in wisconsin. wisconsin, theywi are finding tremendous discrepancies. you just take a look at the tremendous discrepancy, and elsewhere. so, we are going to see what happens, but you can't have somebody assume office and already they want to get rid of america first, i mean, they want to get rid of america first. they don't want america first. do you know why? because china doesn't want it. china expressed their wish, "please get rid of america first," and the biden-f administration said, "oh, that's okay, we'll get rid of america

first." we don't want to get rid of america first. we want to put america first. in other countries should put themselves first, i tell them that all the time come up they don't want to get rid of -- i don't know what is going to happen. i know one thing, joe biden did not o get 80 million votes, andi got 74 million, but there were many ballots thrown away, so i got much more than that, but i got 74 million -- 74 million is 4 11 million more than i got lat time. it's millions more than ronald reagan got when he won -- he won 49 states, i guess he won 49 states, yes, and it's millions more, millions more than hillary clinton got, joe biden did not get -- and by the way, joe biden did not beat barack obama with the black vote, okay, but they have him as beating him, and if you look at the numbers, the numbers are false. the numbers are corrupt. it was a rigged election, 100%,

and people know it. that is why you have people marching all over the united states right now, they know it was a rigged election, and look what is happening in georgia. a lot ofha things are being foud in georgia, and they are absolutely against showing -- i mean, it is a sad thing, they don't want to show signatures. it can be solved if you show signatures, but you're going to find out thegn people that signd aren't the people that are supposed to be signing. we are going to find that the people who signed those envelopes, they didn't do the ballots, envelopes, and then somebody said, "maybe the envelopes were thrown out." there is tremendous fraud here. if you look -- wait just one second -- you look 10:00 in the evening, you saw what happened. then you have these massive dumps. nobody has ever seen anything like it. you have dominion, which is very, very suspect to start off with. nobody knows the ownership. people say the votes are counted in foreign countries. and much worse than that, by the way, withn dominion, so, you know, dominion is also partially

based in canada, but it is based in other countries, too.no nobody knows where the votes -- but you know, canada refuses to use dominion. canada uses paper ballots. so think of it, they are based in canada, and canada refuses to use them. they are smart. they use paper ballots, because paper ballots are the only thing, frankly, the only thing thatat really, you are going to get an accurate tab on, because those machines are fixed, they are rigged, you can press "before" and the vote goes to biden. all you t have to do is play wih the chip, and it is shown on the time, all you have to do is play with the chip, and they played with the chip, especially in wayne county, in detroit, you take a look, in philadelphia, you take a look, we have had excellent meetings with senators from pennsylvania, republican senators, and others, and theyin are seeing things -- and they knew it was dishonest, but they didn't know it was this dishonest. you'll see it all. you'll see it all, so we'll see.

speaking of georgia, i will be going there. i spoke with the two great senators, they are great senators, kelly and david. i will probably be going on saturday. we are looking for a site. we are going to have a tremendous turnout, we seem to always have a good turnout. the people are very disappointed that we were robbed, we were robbed -- i won that by hundreds of thousands of votes, everybod knows it. you v laid on the streets, there were trunk-pen signs all over the place, and we won that by hundreds of thousands, georgia, so they are disappointed, i don't want them to be disappointed, that will solve itself. we are finding -- once we get to the signatures, we will take over 100% -- once we get the signature, 100%, we will take over georgia, and we will get georgia, but they have to show us. stacey abrams pulled the wool over the secretary of state -- i don't know who he is -- but the secretary of state -- [indistinct reporter question] he says that, too, i don't know. all i know is that is the

ultimate. t "i donated to trump, i respect trump, i think trump is great," but we give you nothing. this guy got played like i've never seen anybody get played. tell him if he donated to trump, if he likes trump, let us see the signatures. why is he not letting us see -- there is only one reason you can't see the signatures, that is because there is fraud all over the place, and even without looking at signatures, as you know, we found thousands of wrong votes.un and by the way, always against me. it was not like 50/50, it was always against me. the other thing, take a look at michigan. take a look at what they did with respect to counties. every county, 78%, 72%, 76%, 59%, the whole thing, one after another after another after -- and then you get to detroit. and it's like, more votes than people? dead people voting all over the place? but anyway, going back to

georgia just for a second, i'll be going there on saturday night, andnd maybe i'll go twic. it's very important that we win those races. these are great people, i know them very well. they are both great people, and i thinkat the two people i beat, the one gentleman, he ran against me, congressionales candidate who was an excellent person, frankly, and he didn't even live in the right community, and that's how he won, so now i have to beat him again. he lost as a congressman. he was going for congress, as you remember. and now he is running against david. he r doesn't deserve to be ther. he is a lightweight. and the other one -- either a communist or socialist, i can't figureso that one out yet, but e has either a communist or socialist, probably a communist. this is not for georgia. and i just want to tell my people, don't be disappointedca yet, because this race is far from over, but i'm going on saturday night, i'll be in georgia, going to have a tremendous crowd, looking for

the right site. would love to take one of the big stadiums, but you can't because of the covid, so we'll have an outdoor form of probably an airport, most likely it is an airport. they are looking for the biggest base. we will have, you know, tens of thousands of people show up, but i think it is very important, and then i may go a second time depending on how they are doing i may go a second time. they are two really good people. yeah, please, go ahead. >> reporter: vote for joe biden on december 14th, will you [indistinct] 's >> president trump: it's going to be a very hard thing to see because we know there was massive fraud. as to whetherot or not i can get this apparatus moving this quickly, because time isn't on our side. everything is on our side, facts are on our side. this it was a massive fraud. it should never take place in this country. we are like a third world country. we have machines that nobody knows what the hell they are looking at. you take a look at all of the

mistakes they made -- look at even georgia come all of the mistakes they made come all of that was a simply press a butto. look at georgia, all the votes they found, and i said they shouldn't even do it because it doesn't mean anything. they are doing a recount right now in georgia that is meaningless. the only recount that matters in georgia is to look at the signatures on the envelope, and you will find that those signatures do not match the people, there were many of them, hundreds of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands -- and i only lost by 12,000 votes -- i didn't lose. i don't even like to say i. los. i only -- i guess 11,000 or 12,000 votes short. if that's out of millions and millions of votes. they just got it over the line. and one of the things that happened, i did so well. i was told this into under their states, they didn't know what to do, look at the drops at 3:00 and 3:42 in the morning, they did drops like this, and then you have a spike that goes up to

the ceiling, it's disgraceful. we can't let thatt happ happen. in philadelphia, the republicans, state house republicans are very, very upset, and it sort of appropriate because philadelphia has become very activist. if you look at what is going on. they don't want that w to happen to pennsylvania, to the state of pennsylvania. and it was -- i don't even like to use -- it was a rigged election. >> reporter: if the electoral vote college votes for joe biden -- 's >> president trump: if they do, they made a mistake. because this election was a fraud. just saying, this election was a fraud. they have biden beating obama, obama's vote in areas that mattered in terms of the election, in swing states. and yet, he is losing to obama all over the place. but he's beating obama in swing states, which are the states that matter for purposes of the election, so, no, i can't say

that at all. it's a possibility. they tried to -- look. between you people -- don't talk to me that way. you just are a lightweight, don't talk to me. don't talk to -- i am the president of the united states, don't ever talk to the president that way. all right, i'm going to go with another question. go ahead. >> reporter: are you not going to leave this building? >> just so you -- certainly i will. certainly i will come and you know that. but i think that there will be a lot of things happening between now and the 20th of january, a lot of things. massive fraud has been found. we are like a third world country. we are using computer equipment that can be hacked. they talk about glitches -- howg many glitches did they find? a glitch, oh, gee, we had a glitch, 5,000 votes. in all cases, right, in all cases, the votes went from trums to biden. they didn't know from biden -- they were never provided to trump. so they had many glitches. oh, we had a glitch.

a glitch is like the equipment is a little broken, we will fix it. no, glitches, in this case, we caughtth them cheating, we caught them stealing, we caught a fraudulent effort to get vot votes. and they said, oh, yes, it's true, and there were many off them, but here's the problem: there are probably ten, 20, 30 times i didn't get caught. just got lucky and caught numerous of them. but with that is is very simple. if you look at the glitch, the glitch means -- right? it means, oh, we got caught. we got caught with the votes. and now, let's just call it a glitch. it wasn't a machinery -- and by the way, the machinery, if tou look -- just take a look, and he went on the internet, you will see many, many people where they are experimenting with the stupid machinery, where if you set it a certain way, the votes gogo from trump to biden. if you look at these counties, if you look ats, the arizona,

where i was going to win very easily, i've had the biggest politicians and arizona say there was no way he lost arizo arizona. there's no way i lost pennsylvania, with his anti-fuel and with his anti-fracking, and all of the things they stand against. there was no way. now, texas, you all said that i was going to lose texas by a lot, four points. i won texas by 8 or nine points, i wanted very easily. in wisconsin, you also i was going to lose -- the paul said, certain polls, "washington post," abc, said i was going to lose, think how dishonest. i thought i was going to win it, essentially, i did win it, it was very, very close, and we are going to win because they found --to by the way, in wisconsin, they have found massive discrepancy, just so you understand, massive discrepancy, but they said i was going to lose by 17 points, and i won the state,on okay, but it's very close, it shows very close,

whether you say win or lose, it shows very close, but when you look at the massive discrepancy that we'll be revealing -- that has already been revealed, everybody knows it, they just don't want to -- between big tech and the fake news media, you just put out, like this little railroad train.th i think it is not right that he is trying to pick a cabinet, but i can't imagine, whether it is courts or legislatures, if you're going to catch hundreds of thousands of false ballots -- and i'm talking in each state, and just so you understand, many, many more votes that we are talking about that we need, you understand, i'm not saying we caught 23 dead people, but we were short 20,000 votes. no, no. we have tens of thousands votes more than we need in all cases, okay, in all cases. so i think you're going to see something -- i mean, i think it's good to be a very big story. yeah, please. >> referee:nl >> reporter:

mr. president -- >> president trump: yes, go ahead -- >> reporter: if joe biden takes over, we announced candidate know my candidacy for 2024? >> president trump: i don't want to talk about 2024 yet, because this is far from -- look, look. i and the people who work -- very professional -- you look at the philadelphia meeting, you look at the pennsylvania meeting yesterday, and a lot of it came out, this is a long way to go. this has a long way to go. you're going to find tremendous fraud. you're going to find frauds of hundreds of thousands of votes per state. you're going to find fraud of many, many times the votes that i need. again, we are not talking about less votes, you know, 20 votes, but it doesn't turn the election. we are talking about thousands and thousands of votes beyond what we need to turn a state. when you see that, i think it's

very hard, even for the media to say, you know, biden should win the state. and there is no way that biden got 80 million votes. by v the way.ay the only way he got 80 million votes is through a massive fraud. there's no way he got 80 million votes. >> reporter: [distinct question] >> president trump: it's happening now. we are in courts, but we are also in front of legislatures and doing very well. >> reporter: mr. president, if you don't think the presidential election was legitimate, you think it was stolen, what confidence do you expect voters to have when they go to the polls to vote for, say, loeffler and perdue? >> president trump: i told them today, think you are dealing with a very fraudulent system. i'm very worried about that. they are tremendous people. kelly loeffler, david perdue, tremendous people, they should s senate. they are desperately needed. i told him today, i said, listen, you have a fraudulent

system.. you have aem system, with the flick of a switch with the putting in of a new chip can change the course of history. you have to be very careful, i read this morning where stacey abrams has 850,000 ballots accumulated. that's called harvesting. you're not allowed to harvest, but i understand the secretary of state, who is really -- he is an enemy of the people. the secretary of state. whether he is republican or not. this man, what he has done, supposedly he made a deal -- you'll have to check this -- where she is allowed to harvest, but in other areas, they are not allowed, what kind of a deal is that? they are not allowed to harvest during the presidential, but hoo can she say she has 850,000 ballots? that would mean she has 850,000 ballots for her, that's not supposed to be happen, that is not an election. you know, elections should be a one-day deal, you walk in and you vote, and if you can't do it, for some reason you are not feeling well or there is a

problem, but what they did is they used covid in order to defraud the people of thisau country. and the whole world is watching, and the whole world is laughing at our electoral process. the whole world is watching.at and it's a very sad thing. very sad thing. and you know what, i've done a lot of things, you saw space for us and you've seen the tax cuts and the regulation cuts and the way we've taken care of the vets and what we've'v done with alasa and all of the different things we've done, more than just about anybody's done, even though it's afour years, there are those tt say what i'm doing right now is the single most important thing done.ver and i think it may be true. it may be true. the vaccines -- and by the way, don't let joe biden take credit for the vaccines. if joe biden -- joe biden failed with the swine flu, h1n1, totally failed with the swine flu. don't let him take credit for the vaccines, because the

vaccines for me, and i pushed people harder than they've ever been pushed before, and we got that approved and through, and e nobody has ever seen anything like it, and you've got a big resistance in the fda, from years and years of people working -- for years and years, different administrations, but the vaccines, there are those that say it is one of the greatest things, it's a medical miracle. don't let anyone try and takele credit for it. but t with all of the things i'e done, this could be the most important, because there has been voter fraud going on, but never of this scale. tens of millions of ballots have been sent out to people that didn't even wanteo them here for many people -- and i know you've heard -- many people have received two or three or four ballots. and many people have taken those two and three and four ballots and they voted them. this election was a fraud. it was a rigged election. i hate to say it, but r this was rigged, the highest level, it

was a rigged election. so we have to figure it out. and yes, i think it is very dangerous for the two people thater are running against two totally unqualified people, and i think it's very dangerous for our nation, and i'll go a step further and say today, other than the fact that you have all of the eyes and ears, but the media doesn't cover it properly, because the media, they saw something wrong, i'm convinced the media would not report it, because you have many things you know are wrong and you don't report. but if the media was honest in this country -- which, you know, for the most part, they are not -- this would never have happened. this has taken place --ha this fraud has taken place. if the media were honest, this would never, ever have happened. but you have a big election coming up. you have a woman or somebody unannounced 850,000 absentee ballots have already been collected. 850, and i told david perdue today, and i called kelly yesterday, i said they are

talkingal about having 800,000 ballots against you. you can't do that, you can't do that. what kind of a race is that? you can't allow that to happen. and i'm serious, if the media were honest, and if big tech were honest, which is totally not come it's a terrible, thing, section 230 is a disgrace, but big tech is totally dishonest. if the media were honest, and big tech was fair, this wouldn't even be a contest. and i would've won by a tremendous amount. a tremendous amount. and i did win by a tremendous amount, but it hasn't been reported yet, but people understand what has happened. they know what happened -- e.r.? say it? >> reporter: [indistinct question]ha >> president trump: i don't want to say yet -- i'll be honest, i know the answer, i just want to say it yet. anything like this possibly has never happened before, but maybe people just didn't catch it, but

we -- we've caught hundreds of thousands of votes -- excuse me, excuse me. when they don't allow a for watcher, which is a sacred person in our country, people don't know whatd is a poll watcr is, but a poor washer is considered sacred in this country. they throw them out of room -- go >> reporter: but that's not true -- goo to >> president trump: my attorneys did not admit anything, and it is all places, but they throw them ing rooms, they put them in what is called pens, and they are 20, 30, 40 feet away, in some cases 240 feet away. when a woman walks in on november 3rd 2 vote,vo a proud woman -- and this is by the thousands, tens of thousands, and she says "i'm here to vote" and they say "you've already voted, ma'am, i'm sorry," "no, i didn't vote,d i would want to

cast my vote in person." "i'm sorry, ma'am, you already voted by the mail." and then they leave. this is a horrible thing, do we have tens of thousands of that happening. this is a horrible thing. they gave fight and a lot of votes that he would never have gotten. this is not a candidate that could get 80, 80 million votes. this is not a candidate that beat barack hussein obama with the black voter. okay? this is note a candidate that beatat obama with the black vot. this is not the candidate that beat hillary clinton to a pulp. it just doesn't work that way. but when you look at the number, when you look at the data, and when you look at the things weo have, we have affidavits from hundreds and hundreds of people, this election was a rigged election.n thank you very much, everybody. thank you.. >> mike: a very fired up president trump engaging with reporters after the traditional thanksgiving calls to american

service members overseas. the president complaining of massive fraud in the 2020 election, but acknowledging for his supporters, "time isn't on our side." the president not wanting to talk about a possible 2024 campaign for the white house, still hoping to present his case for the 2020 election. with that, let's bring in the panel a little early, hugo gurdon hugo gurdon, editor in chief of the "washington examiner," courtney super aignan, white house correspondent forey "usa today," and reporter for "r politics." you are with the president for that session, what is your take away for that? >> we haven't heard president trump hold court like that for three weeks, but we saw a continuation and an escalation of what we heard from him on election night. he still insists he won the election, he made widespread allegations of voter fraud that we didn't offer any new evidence, and he even called into question whether or not, if

the electoral college was certified, the election provide income if they would have made a mistake. he clearly is sticking with his case, and looked, he was energetic, he was more than happy toe go back and forth with reporters, and i imagine he will continue to do so up until inauguration day. >> mike: hugo, your thoughts? >> i thought it was interesting that although he was very, very aggressive, he stuck to his guns, talked as though he everything he said about election fraud, et cetera, he did actually leave it open to an exit, a fairly calm exit from the white house. he said, look, time is not on our side, which suggests he doesn't know he will be able to prove his case over the course of the next several weeks, not before the electoral college follows through and president-elect biden is elected. hehees also said, when asked, of course he'd leave the white house on time, on january the 20th, if the

electoral college decided was president. so although there was a lot of bravado and aggression and constantly repeated talk of massive fraud come he also leftn a fairly calm exit. >> mike: courtney, what are your key takeaways after seeing and hearing this p president on thanksgiving dave clearly fired up? >> very fired up. you know, this is a president that loves keeping people in suspense, so he wouldn't give an answer of whether he plans to attend president-electat biden's inauguration day. he said he did have an answer but is keeping it close to the chest. this is the first time president trump has recognized the n need for a peaceful handor of power, and that is a question that has really hung over this country, since president-elect biden won the election, so we can put that question to bed, finally. >> mike:e: philip, i'm sure a sense of relief for republicans

on capitol hill, the president intends to return to the campaign trail to help senators david perdue and kelly loeffler in the critical run up and down in georgia. >> that's right, when i asked the president about the georgia runoff, what was interesting as he said he is counseling both david perdue and kelly loeffler about thee possibility of the widespread fraud that he alleges in the presidential election. i think this is quite interesting, you have a president who is encouraging voters to go out to the polls for two's set of candidates who could determine the balance of power in the senate, encouraging them to go to the polls at a moment he is saying the last time they went out to the falls, the outcome was illegitimate. >> mike: panelists, thank you so much. stick around, we will get back to you later in the show.ex up next, the we will look at the supreme court siding with religious groups. ♪ by getting vaccinated. if you're 65 or older, get the superior flu protection of fluzone

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thanksgiving day, a potentially seminal supreme court ruling that legal experts are examining for the path forward in this pandemic. it has to do with just how much control government can have on your life in general, and on your worship, in particular. this legal ruling is the latest indication of how much president trump has shaped the judicial branch. correspondent david spunt hasen the story tonight live from the supreme court. good evening, david.y >> mike, happy thanksgiving to you. this case will have implications for decades. new york houses of worship are rejoicing tonight after the supreme court rules and ordinance and in order by governor andrew cuomo must be thrown out. the plaintiffs, a church and synagogue from new york, argue n the governor's order violated their freedom of religion. newly minted justice amy coney barrett sided with the court's conservative wing which wrote a 5-4 decision, not only is theree no evidence that the applicants have e contributed to the spread of covid-19, but there are many

other less restrictive rules thatic could be adopted to minimize the risk to those attending religious services, even in a pandemic, the constitution cannot be put away and forgotten. when balancing religious freedom versus public health, justice samuel alito recently made his views clear. >> the pandemic has resulted in previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty. >> the liberal wing of the court, this time joined by chief justice john roberts, a devout catholic, wrote it was not the courts place to override determinations made by public health officials concerning what is necessary for public safety in the midst of a deadly pandemic. the governor of new york, a proud catholic himself, says he issued restrictions in the name of science, and more importantly, safety. >> you're only supposed to have 50sa outdoors. they had 1,000. >> this morning, cuomo minimize the weight of this latest ruling.

the governor recently changed the color coding for religious institutions, loosening previous restrictions. >> it's irrelevant from any practical impact. because the zone that they were talking about has already been moved. >> heve said, look, given the facts on the ground, i'm going to make this change to the color scheme for the categorization, for the supreme court said is, well, not so fast, just because you move the categories today doesn't mean you won't change it up again tomorrow. >> while the high court's decision only affects new york, it sends a signal toy other states on religious gatherings. the justices are considering similar cases in california, new jersey, and louisiana. >> many of the churches are doing this and saying, wait a minute, if a costco is at half capacity with social distancing, why can't we be at half capacity with social distancing? >> mike, what makes this even more interesting is over the summer, the high court ruled the

opposite, a complete 180, arguing california and nevada governors could put theseat restrictions in place for health and safety reasons, the reason justice ruth bader ginsburg wasl living and still on the high court. now, justice amys coney barrett is carving out her legal legacy. mike? >> mike: already seeing her impact. david spunt, thanks a lot. president-elect joe biden spending the holiday with a smaller than usual spec family gathering after encouraging americans not to gather or simple and large groups, but biden taking some heat on this holiday for not living up to expectations when it comes to a key part of his political base. correspondent kevin corke has details tonight from hobart beach, delaware. >> thanksgiving has always been a special night for the biden family. for us, we had a long, long tradition of traveling to nantucket without a big family, a large family. everyy thanksgiving. we won't be doing that this year. >>g "we are all in this together," that is how a biden

transition team member described the former vice president thinking behind dual messages to the nation, even as court challenges to the election continue. a theme echoed in an op-ed posted by cnn, in which he and his wife, jill, singled out health care workers, educators, researchers commit all of those impacted by the latest covid-19 surge. there will be no family walks in the cold or playful bickering amongst the grandkids. like millions of americans, we are temporarily letting go of traditions we't can't do safely. mr. biden has pushed the public did not gather in groups larger than ten in an effort to mitigate the spread of the disease. the department of health and human services says officials have conducted briefing with the incoming biden team regarding operation warp speed, and the focus to secure a vaccine to combat covid-19. while the man tapped to lead the agency under a biden administration is a man of color, it'ss concerning to

south carolina congressman jim clyburn, who told fox's juan williams come "from all i hear, black people have been gin fair consideration, but there's only one black woman so far. i want to see what the process leads to and what it produces, but so far, it's not good." people ask why democrats do not do well in rural communities, and this is one of the reasons. clyburn is supporting representative martha fudge of ohio,, a former congressional facblack caucus chair, to become the agriculture secretary. he is also advocating for former jacksonville there alvin brown to lead the department of housing and urban development, while for -- aaa says roughly 50 million americans will be hitting the road this thanksgiving and holiday, and that period is from wednesday to sunday night. while it is actually down by about 5 million from last year, the former vice president said it there is still way too many

people, more folks should be like he and mrs. biden and simply a stay home. mike? >> mike: kevin corke live in delaware, kevin, many thanks. hundreds of thousands of u.s. troops are spending this thanksgiving overseas protecting those of us here at home. one of those places is somalia, where an american intelligence officer has lost his life. national security correspondente jennifer griffin reports tonight from the pentagon. >> mike, we have learned some sad news tonight. a veteran cia officer, former member of seal team six, was killed in combat in somalia in recent days. which means there will be another star on the cia wall, the 135th intelligence officer to be killed while serving overseas. this comes as the president weighs whether to withdraw u.s. troops from somalia, about 700 are there now. 27 years after black hawk down. from togo to timbuktu, at any given day, you can find 300,000 u.s. troops deployed overseas. acting defects secretary chris

miller, former green bere green beret, flew to the middle east and had dinner with some of the 4,000 troops in bahrain, home to the,0 u.s. navy fleet, the u.s. reducing its presence in afghanistan by half0 american troops will remain after january 15th. the u.s. has 800 military bases in more than 70 countries. a growing phalanx of american drone faces and places like djibouti and the horn of africa, 60,000 american troops serve at bases in the middle east. 1,000 in brussels at nato headquarters, nearly a thousand troops in cuba to guard 40 prisoners at guantanamo bay. 34,000 u.s. troops currently serve in germany. more than 50,000 american troops are based in japan, along with 28,500 in south korea. the outgoing top republican on the house armedop services committee explains what would happen if the u.s. closed those bases and returned home. >> it's been the best 70 years, pretty much, you could argue, in

human existence, and it's partly because the united states of america has been engaged in the world. if we step back, others fill the void, they will not share ourue values. the world will suffer. >> what does this cost the u.s. taxpayer, according to the rand corporation, u.s. taxpayers pay an annual average of 10,000 40,000 mark to station a military member abroad than thee united states. that's not the real cost. today, we think those trips overseas and their families brought a sacrifice to keep americans safe. mike? >> mike: amen. jennifer griffin at the pentagon. when we return, my colleague, bret baier speaks about the future of u.s. troops in afghanistan. >> i'm from miami, florida, and i would like. to say h happy thanksgiving to my wife and my mom and my two brothers andnd my unborn son. love you guys. ♪

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joining us now, the secretary of state of the united states, mike pompeo. >> great to bemi back with you, bret, thank you. last time we talked, you just come off saying the trump administration would be into its second term, essentially, we have come to the conclusion this transition process has come even as the legal challengin challe continue. >> i remember when i was the incoming -- the united states had one secretary of state at the time, no right feet, left feet, there will be one secretary of state and one president for the duration, the president has directed us to do in compliance with the t condits a legal requirement. we will always honor that. >> when it comes to afghanistan, where were you on zero troops in afghanistan? >> well, it is the mission set. >> but i mean before

january 20th? >> the president will obviously make the decision onhe that. the president today said wees wl go where we are today, just over 4,000, two around 2500. bret, don't fall in the trap of thinking american were security related to the number of soldiers on the ground in any one place. threats from terrorists around the world, islamic extremism, islamic terrorism, doesn't just emanate from afghanistan. we have the posture right today, we will keep it right, get our troops home when we can come and we will do the things we need to do. if they are problems, we will stop them. president trump has been very cure. we will protect and secure the homeland, but we are not going to have our young men and women in harm's way when it does not deliver real security benefits for the united states and for our allies. >> i guess some people look at it when you stood for that photo with the taliban in february and the signed accord and the negotiations were still ongoing, the deal was down to 2400, not

2500. was that somehow changed by the troop numbers that the president put out, and did it hurt the negotiations with the taliban? >> bret, what we signed in february talked about getting down to zero by may based on a set of conditions on the ground. that is what we agreed to. we have made some progress, had significant prisoner releases. we have violence levels that have reduced risks to americans significantly overer this time period, since february of last year. the afghanistan violence levels are still higher than they need to be. i was with the afghan government negotiators and with the taliban negotiators just this past weekend in qatar, and i talked about the need to continue to make conduct negotiations which will lead to a unified, independent afghanistan that protects all of the gains that have been made over the past years, and the fact they need to take violence levels down even further, and the taliban need to

honor the commitment they made to make sure that there is not a terror attack that takes place on afghan story soil. there is still work to do, but we are heading in the right direction. we are saferer here in the united states today as a result of the things the trump administration has done, not only in afghanistan, but throughout that region. >> what is your most memorable moment as secretary of state? >> you know, bret, that is a great question. i haven't had a chance to reflect on h it. but i give you my quick response, it was really something to come back from pyongyang with three americans and travel home with information and return them to their families. those folks had been held in harm's way.. they were at real risk, and we got a chance to bring three americans home that morning back atac the very beginning of my te as secretary of state. it s was pretty special to do that. >> what is next for you? elected office? private-sector? what is that? >> hard to know, bret. we'll keep doing this until we are tapped on the shoulder and told it is no longer time to be secretary of state, and then i

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♪ ♪ >> we are back with our panel with thanksgiving day reflections here, yuko courtney and philip to lead it off. >> what i'm really pleased about and what i'm very thankful for today is coming up to the end of the year. and a solid back and forth originals on the supreme court. i say that not just because it means i will get decisions i approve of but i think it actually gives me the opportunity, it actually gives people hope that congress will have to compromise. people make a mistake in thinking you have an easily divided court, you will get moderate in the middle but instead, what you get is vicious

fight to try to spring the court one way or the other. if you have a court, sorry, we will not be governed for you, the people in congress will have to try to find a compromise. if there is one thing they have shown by the last election. >> courtney, your turn. >> i'm going to be more sentimental. i'm always grateful for my family but i'm especially grateful for health care workers like my father who are on the front lines of this pandemic and for the prospect that they can all potentially be vaccinated by years and/or early next year. >> beautiful, philip, your turn. >> i'm thankful for woodburn indiana where my dad built a small business and my mom taught me to read and write.. where my siblings kept me out of too much trouble. i wish it was back there. i'm grateful for the sacrifices, that everyone has made so i can

do journalism. the best job i've ever had. >> thank you very much and we all look forward of course to a vaccine hopefully on the horizon or multiple vaccines on the horizon. final thoughts in terms of looking ahead in the immediate future. >> we have got another several weeks of really intensee policies. we don't do anything in this town or we won't the nextfr several weeks. >> courtney, quick comment from you. >> i think the president mentioned earlier, there is time between now and january 20th. i fully expect quite active a few weeks the white house as well with the biden transition team. >> okay, what i'm thankful for on this thanksgiving is family,r faith, and health. i'm sorry my family is not altogether. we are trying to do the responsible thing. i miss youor all in new york and

my in-laws in the area but we will get through this together. thank you for watching special report. i mike emanuel and good night from washington. happy thanksgiving to all of you and we will be back here tomorrow night. good night. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to a special, a genuinely special edition of "tucker carlson tonight." thanksgiving, hope you're having a wonderful time with your family. nothing is more important or happier than spending time with the peopleth you love. we haven't had a lot of chances to do that this year. we been pulled apart. many americans are alone tonight, more than any time in our history. a lot has changed in this country, but a lot remains the same, and we should be thankful for that. a in a year when cultural vandals and tragically unhappy graduate student set out to destroy virtually everything in sight, from statues of the saints to the very idea of columbus day,